Deleting Roms on the retropie interface?
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Hi,
New to this but say you have a 2,000 MAME roms and you play 1 of them and decide you don't like it, is there a way to just click delete from the selection screen rather than going onto your computer or taking out the SD card to plug into your computer?
I hope this make sense.
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You can delete a single ROM via EmulationStation by pressing select on the ROM, then Edit Metadata.
For mass deletion, you can use command line or file explorer locally, or samba share/ssh/sftp if your RPi is connected on your network. -
@Sano Got it, I'll give it a try when I get home. Thanks for your help.
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@Sano Yep to erase all .nes files you type
sudo rm *.nes
To erase a file of your choice, you type
sudo rm [filename]
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@sano What about gamelist.xml and the downloaded_images folder - will these still contain the rom info?
Is there some way of deleting roms that takes care of all these things at once, or is it generally considered unimportant?
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@AndersHP
AFAIK deleting ROM from ES just delete the file, it doesn't clean gamelist.xml or downloaded images.
Maybe a feature request could be a good idea ?@meleu made a great tool to clean all this afterward :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11074/a-gamelist-xml-cleaner-tool
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